Harshwind

Be warned that there has been a rise in phishing email scams this past month, since the release of Blizzard’s World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. They appear to come from Blizzard; From: noreply@blizzard.com – but, they are fake and lead you to a website that will attempt to steal your password or install malware on your computer. If you have questions, always ask wowaccountadmin@blizzard first, and never give anyone your password!

The email may look something like these two recent examples:

Greetings!

We have already noted that you are trying to sell your personal World of Warcraft account (s).
Terms of Use

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/legal/termsofuse.html
It will be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard Entertainment's employees.
If you wish to not get your account suspended you should immediately verify your account
ownership. You must complete the steps below to secure the account and your computer.

STEP 1: ACCOUNT INVESTIGATION
We now provide a secure website for you to verify that you have taken the appropriate steps to
secure the account, your computer, and your email address. Please go to this site and follow the instructions:

http://us.blizzard.com/support/article/securitywebform
STEP 2: VERIFY YOUR SUBMISSION WAS RECEIVED
We will contact you with further instructions once we have received and processed your submission.
If you do not receive a reply within 48 hours of submitting this form, please resend
it from the address listed above.

Please be aware that if unauthorized access to this account, it may lead to further action against
the account.

Fare Thee Well,

Game Master Dunarthra
Customer Services
Blizzard Entertainment
www.blizzard.com/support

* In this case, the “Fare Thee Well” was a nice touch! The embedded hyperlinks actually led to a different site.

World of Warcraft - Account Management‏

An investigation of your World of Warcraft account has found strong evidence that the account in question is being sold or traded.

As you may not be aware of, this conflicts with Blizzard's EULA under section 4 Paragraph B which can be found here: WoW -> Legal -> End User License Agreement and Section 8 of the Terms of Use found here: WoW -> Legal -> Terms of Use The investigation will be continued by Blizzard administration to determine the action to be taken against your account.
If your account is found violating the EULA and Terms of Use, your account can,and will be suspended/closed/or terminated. In order to keep this from occurring, you should immediately verify that you are the account. To verify your identity please visit the following webpage: www.warldofwarcerft.com*

* note the website they try to direct you to… fortunately, my Gmail account detects all these as spam!